Typos taht drive you CRAZEY!

Originally Posted by DragoonKain

I know how it is spelled, I'm just too lazy to use the apostrophe.

"I like to make myself appear intelligent, however I haven't yet learned to use conjunctions."

Anyhow,

When I was younger, and just starting to learn grammar, I was pretty anal about being grammatically correct. As the years progressed however, I have gotten somewhat careless at times.

Usually my mistakes range from using the wrong You're/your, or their,there,they're, or even the wrong to/too/two. This is usually a result of me being distracted while typing something up. And unless someone comments about it in the tread, I don't usually go back and read my own post afterwards. I suppose I should, but I don't.

Sometimes I'll even type 'teh' or 'taht' as well. That's a result of typing 80-100wpm, and not taking the time to go back and double check. I realize that it takes my credibility down, so I've been working harder on taking the time to proofread lately.

As for the things that annoy me: I hate pointless abbreviations. In cellphone text messages I can understand the point. The point of cellphones is to contact people quickly. It's also difficult to type text messages on a phone sometimes. So abbreviations are handy and quick. On the internet though, or in chat, there is no reason to say something like. 'um, were r u'. You have a full keyboard of letters at your disposal. And even at 20wpm, you should be able to type a whole word. It mks me ir8 wen ppl us abbrvs fr no reson. et jst mks it sem lk u cnt spll. c how annoyng dat iz?

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Originally Posted by Interrobang

Then put a "s" after the apostrophe, as you're supposed to.

All my dogs have colds. My friend asked "How are your dogs's colds?"

Bad example I know, but doesn't that look awkward to you?

"How are your dogs' colds?"

Looks much better in my opinion. Alot of the different grammar rules were created to make the language sound better. So if you start breaking the rules, you sound like shit. Or at least your writing will look like shit anyhow.

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Originally Posted by DragoonKain

I didn't turn the topic into anything. You were the one that chose to pick a fight with me.

All I did was post what I found mildly annoying in a topic, and simply left out the apostrophe in "c'mon" which apparently to you is an extremely big deal. After all you did refer to it as "maddening."

You clearly have an issue with me though, that much is obvious at this point. I have no beefs with anyone on this site, so if you'd like to express your issues with me via PM, I'd be more than happy to oblige.

How pissed off were your grandparents when their son and daughter concieved you? C'mon man, stop trying to get the last word, you're not going to win.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Interrobang

I'm talking about words that aren't plural. "Claus's bird flew away."

My bad, kinda jumped the gun on that one.

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Originally Posted by DragoonKain

It is spelled conceived, actually. The i before e rule.

Hey wait, you idiot. I did spell it I before E. I feel a little dumb for almost admitting I was wrong. Fucking douchebag.

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Originally Posted by DragoonKain

i before e... except after c.

oh shit, sorry man. I'm on some pretty powerful painkillers right now. subject dropped.

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I would say that just makes me lazy, but whatever...

Oh, we're sorry. That's right, you're not dumb, just lazy. That's okay I guess. You're such a good person for being lazy. I'm sorry I ever said anything against you.

Did your parents feed you drain-o when you were a child? Lazyness is not an excuse for poor grammar and typos. Or at least it shouldn't be. There is no such thing as lazy. "Lazy" people are just too stupid to know that doing things properly is the actual cool thing.

I mean, I can understand bad spelling and grammar coming from certain people. I went to highschool with a guy who was really slow. He struggled with spelling and grammar and just speech in general. In most everything else he was a genius, but he just couldn't seem to spell or write properly. However, instead of just going 'oh I can't spell but that's okay', he invested in some higher end spelling and grammar checking software for his computer so that even if he couldn't spell good, at least he had a method of producing error free documents and other things.

Speaking of grammar and spelling etc, whatever happened to the GFF Grammar/Spelling Police from back in the day?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So, back on the topic of Internet errors that annoy me.

People who make the errors that annoy me, and don't care. Then they get all pissed off when other people do care. Seriously, what is up with those people?

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Originally Posted by Dhsu

Dunno if you're being ironic here, but it's "spell well." "Good" is an adjective.

No irony, it's been awhile since I've had to write a professional essay or anything like that. So the little nuances of grammar have sorta slipped away. Also, my parents probably say that alot, so I probably grew up hearing it, and thus, until I went back and actually read it, it looked fine to me.

In all reality though, that's a minor thing. Things like that don't tend to annoy me. Talking on an internet forum, you read alot of things written by people where english isn't their first language. So naturally, there might be mistakes. Unless they've been learning english for quite a few years, they won't know every little think. As long as they know how to get their point across, then small grammar mistakes are forgiveable.

How ya doing, buddy?

Actually, it can have something. The dog licked it's nose. =P However I might be wrong

Also, isn't it's also a contraction for 'it has'? At least that's how I used it in my last post there.

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No irony, it's been awhile since I've had to write a professional essay or anything like that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just noticed myself spelling 'Unfortuneatly' instead of Unfortunately. I mean, how have I gotten away with spelling it that way without anyone yelling at me, or me going 'hey wtf, that doesn't look right?'. Someone slap me please. There was another word I spelled weird for awhile as well. I can't remember what it is right now though.

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Originally Posted by Shanks

It is fallacious to clothe prescriptive spelling standards in the guise of "truth." Truth, as you say, is never a social construct, but spelling is. Spelling changes as culture changes; culture changes as the collective psychology of a nation changes. It is not absurd then to attempt to attribute the frustration with spelling to some sort of psychological condition.

And I have no response for your other verbiage.

Originally Posted by Google Language Tools

Hey guys, I'm smart, I used a thesaurus to replace every single word in this post. Really all I said was 'I'm right you're wrong'

Seriously, that's what it spit out. I swear.

I get annoyed by people that try to flaunt their "intelligence" over other people. But seriously, dog is always going to be spelled 'd-o-g' no matter how society changes. That is, unless wiggers have their way and it starts to be spelled 'dawg'.

Oh I saw another typo today that annoyed me. People who use excessive punctuation in this. HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does not get my attention anymore than HI!. Really, save some finger stamina, type less characters. *sigh*

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.